Thank you for taking the time to reply. That's all good information. I will try disabling encryption tonight, but I have to go to work now. Already using a stable build, not a nightly. However, I think I might try another version just in case, now that I have the process down. I'll let you know if disabling encryption works. Thanks again.

I did this, and everything seems to work wonderfully, with one very big exception:

I can't connect to any Wifi networks. It will say Obtaining IP Address for a long time and then try connecting again over and over. I went into the Advanced Wifi settings and found the Wi-fi Region Code set to Europe. I change it to United States, and it keeps going back to Europe. Any way to fix this?

Which particular CM10.x build are you using?

Also, did you do a "wipe data/factory reset" while you were in CWM/TWRP Recovery?

I made an account just to ask this, please bear with me as this is the first time I've tried anything like this and my knowledge is very limited. Every step makes sense to me except the first one. I cant seem to get my SD cart to format properly. I am on a Mac which I think is part of the problem (no Minitool Partition). I tried to figure out how to do it using Terminal to no avail. I used the standard Disk Utility on Mac and it just creates a fat32 but it clearly isnt right; when I copy the files on per the instructions and plug in the Nook just boots normally. I have managed to boot into CWM but never Cyanoboot. Thanks for any help that you can offer.

To boot from sd-card in general: Power down, insert powered USB cable (connected top charger)
To boot into internal Cyanoboot: Try pressing and holding the "n" key right after you turn device on (from completely powered down)

I have absolutely no idea if this could be any help for you or not, but I have a really easy "half-cheating" way to do it that I describe under "C" in this post. I do not own a Mac though, so maybe nothing of this can be used there. But no harm in looking, I guess:http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2081981

I made an account just to ask this, please bear with me as this is the first time I've tried anything like this and my knowledge is very limited. Every step makes sense to me except the first one. I cant seem to get my SD cart to format properly.
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I have managed to boot into CWM but never Cyanoboot. Thanks for any help that you can offer.

I am puzzled that you were able to "boot into CWM" without going past Cyanoboot.

Also, I noticed your profile lists Nook HD as your device -- just to be clear the process described in my original post of this thread is for the Nook Tablet, not the Nook HD/HD+. You can search the XDA HD/HD+ forums for comparable process/tools that are applicable for the Nook HD/HD+.

On the other hand if your device in question is indeed a Nook Tablet, what you might try to do in order to bypass the formatting process of step #1 is to download and burn the pre-made SD image from, e.g., http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/...r-nook-tablet/ and then replace any ROM and gapps files on the boot partition with the version of ROM and gapps files intended for internal installation.

I've been running CM10.1 build by XDA Developer Succulent version 06/29 on SD card since its release a weekago, and its reliable/stable performance has crossed the threshold for me to finally take the plunge and install it internally on emmc (updating the tablet from Succulent’s CM10.0 build dated 12.31).

FWIW, here the process I used to install CM10 internally on my 16GB Nook Tablet (i.e., on its emmc) (caveat emptor: adopt/follow it at your own risk).

Using a disk partition tool (such as MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition) create on SD card a Primary FAT32 partition, and set the partition ID type for the partition to 0x0C FAT32 LBA and set its Active flag. Once this is done, the partition should appear as a (read/write accessible) drive under Windows. If you are going to use this card for backing up your NT, keep in mind that each backup will require at least 600MB (for a barebone stock or CM config) and size the partition accordingly.

either one of the two recovery program image files: cwm_6.0.2.8_acclaim_recovery_sdcard.img (ClockworkMod Recovery (aka CWM)), or twrp_2.4.3.0_acclaim_recovery_sdcard.img (TeamWin Recovery Project (aka TWRP)) from http://goo.im/devs/succulent/acclaim/recovery , rename it to recovery.img. If you want to try out (or use) both, name your alternate choice altboot.img.

Put the SD card into the NT, and boot from its power off by inserting a powered USB cable. Press and hold the N button as soon as CyanoBoot comes up to get the boot menu to display.

Select either SDC Recovery (or Alternate Boot depending on which recovery tool you want to use).

Select Backup to backup your current NT config (/boot, /recovery, /system, and /data). Before proceeding to next step, see note (ii) near the end of this post.

Select Wipe data & factory reset.

Select install zip from SD card and install cm10 zip file.

Select install zip from SD card and install gapps zip file.

Select power of and remove SD card from NT and power NT on again using the power button (alternatively you can just remove SD card and select reboot).

Once the NT boots up, set up the wifi connectivity and your google account info. If you had previously used Google backup service your apps will be auto-downloaded (but their settings will not be auto-restored)

A few additional points worth noting:

Installing CM10 ROM and gapps will override your NT's BN-provided boot, recovery, ROM, and Apps, so make sure that you backup all this stuff using backup process in step #5 above, safekeep the backup data on your PC/Laptop and better yet archive it on CD/DVD. Your media files in the NT media partition BN allocates for user should be intact.

To play it safe you should do the above in 2 phases: steps 1 through 5, then exit recovery and remove and mount SD card on PC to verify that backup data got newly created; then insert SD card and continue steps 6 through 9.

CWM and TWRP use different backup archive formats, so keep this in mind if you decide to switch. Furthermore, CWM has changed its archive format going from release 5.x to 6.x, so I think it would be prudent to save a copy of the recovery program together with the backup data it generated. (FWIW I prefer the tar/zip compatible backup data structure TWRP uses (which CWM 5.x had also used) over the BLOb structure which CWM 6.x use -- but YMMV).

To restore from backup data, boot into SD card and select from boot menu the same recovery program that was used to create the backup data, then select the particular backup dataset (indexed by date/time) you want to reinstall on your NT.

I would advise against blindly using other functions of the CWM and TWRP without looking up info and researching to understand what they really do.